Francis Tincke

Francis van der Geenst (died 1748), nicknamed Tincke, was a Flemish highwayman during the mid-18th century. He was "blood brothers" with Jan de Lichte, and the two carried out robberies together from their base in the woods near Aalst. In 1747, the two reunited after De Lichte defeated Tincke in a knife fight and forced him to release his Romani captive Minna, and they ravaged the countryside of Aalst in defiance of the French occupiers during the War of the Austrian Succession. However, in June 1748, Jan de Lichte became paranoid and began to hunt down his comrades, fearing that they would greedily betray him. De Lichte was wounded by gunshots in the back, but he succeeded in killing Tincke and Pieter van de Putte.